Research & Evidence

PESA has launched Positive Education Theory and Application: A Guide to Understanding and Implementing Positive Education. This comprehensive Guide offers an invaluable overview of current wellbeing research and theory, as well as practical advice and strategies for implementation of Positive Education in your school. It include chapters on: The guide also includes a practical self-assessment […]

By Giacomo Bono Gratitude helped Giacomo Bono survive a childhood disease. Now he’s trying to understand how to help kids cultivate thankfulness. When I was nine years old, I came down with a serious case of encephalitis. I spent a couple of weeks drifting in and out of sleep, hooked up to tubes and IVs, […]

Abstract Positive education views school as a place where students not only cultivate their intellectual minds, but also develop a broad set of character strengths, virtues, and competencies, which together support their well-being. What this looks like differs from country to country and school-to-school, but at its core is the ‘character + academics’ approach to […]